Tamara Green sues Bill Cosby for defamation by denying her sexual assault claims

Tamara Green, who first spoke about being sexually assaulted by comedian Bill Cosby in 2005, has filed a federal defamation lawsuit against him.

The lawsuit was filed Wednesday in Springfield, Massachusetts, claiming that Cosby and his representatives have worked hard to call her a liar in the years since she came forward. According to the Boston Herald, she says that Cosby’s lawyer, Walter M. Phillips, Jr. and his publicist, David Brokaw, have said that Green was not assaulted or drugged by Cosby, even though they know her claims are true.

“Defendant Cosby has known that Plaintiff Green's allegations are true and that his attorneys', spokespeson's, and/or agents' denials are false,” the complaint reads.

Green says that she met Cosby in 1969 or 1970 when she was hoping to break into modeling or singing. She was working with Cosby in the early 1970s to raise money for a new club. She alleges that she called Cosby up one day to tell him that she wouldn’t be able to help because she was feeling ill. The Cosby Show star then invited her to lunch in Los Angeles, where he gave her pills, which made her dizzy.

In the lawsuit, Green says that Cosby then took her to her apartment, where he sexually assaulted her.

“He called me a wrecking ball, but he never sued me for defamation,” Green told The Daily News. “My statements against him were actionable if they were false. He didn’t open that can of worms because my statements were true.”

Green spoke with Matt Lauer on the Today Show in 2005. She told her story again to ABC 10 late last month.

The lawsuit was filed in Western Massachusetts, as that is the court district where Cosby and his wife own a home.

Last week, Judy Huth filed a lawsuit against Cosby in Los Angeles, claiming that she was assaulted by the comedian in 1974, when she was 15. Cosby is facing allegations from over a dozen other women, who also claim they were raped and drugged by him in the past.

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